Develop in Different Languages
Discover 'Develop' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Develop
Afrikaans ontwikkel | ||
Albanian zhvillohen | ||
Amharic ማዳበር | ||
Arabic طور | ||
Armenian զարգացնել | ||
Assamese বিকাশ কৰা | ||
Aymara sartayaña | ||
Azerbaijani inkişaf | ||
Bambara ka yiriwa | ||
Basque garatu | ||
Belarusian развіваць | ||
Bengali বিকাশ | ||
Bhojpuri बिकास | ||
Bosnian razvijati | ||
Bulgarian развиват се | ||
Catalan desenvolupar | ||
Cebuano pagpalambo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 发展 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 發展 | ||
Corsican sviluppà | ||
Croatian razviti | ||
Czech rozvíjet | ||
Danish udvikle | ||
Dhivehi ތަރައްޤީ | ||
Dogri पैदा करना | ||
Dutch ontwikkelen | ||
English develop | ||
Esperanto disvolvi | ||
Estonian arenema | ||
Ewe yi ŋgᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bumuo | ||
Finnish kehittää | ||
French développer | ||
Frisian ûntwikkelje | ||
Galician desenvolver | ||
Georgian განვითარება | ||
German entwickeln | ||
Greek αναπτύσσω | ||
Guarani guerojera | ||
Gujarati વિકાસ | ||
Haitian Creole devlope | ||
Hausa ci gaba | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomohala | ||
Hebrew לְפַתֵחַ | ||
Hindi विकसित करना | ||
Hmong tsim kho | ||
Hungarian fejleszteni | ||
Icelandic þróa | ||
Igbo ịzụlite | ||
Ilocano sukogen | ||
Indonesian mengembangkan | ||
Irish fhorbairt | ||
Italian sviluppare | ||
Japanese 発展させる | ||
Javanese ngrembaka | ||
Kannada ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಪಡಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh дамыту | ||
Khmer អភិវឌ្ឍ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwiteza imbere | ||
Konkani विकास | ||
Korean 나타나게 하다 | ||
Krio go bifo | ||
Kurdish pêşvebirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پەرەپێدان | ||
Kyrgyz иштеп чыгуу | ||
Lao ພັດທະນາ | ||
Latin develop | ||
Latvian attīstīties | ||
Lingala kosala | ||
Lithuanian vystytis | ||
Luganda okukulankulana | ||
Luxembourgish entwéckelen | ||
Macedonian развиваат | ||
Maithili विकास | ||
Malagasy hampivelarana | ||
Malay berkembang | ||
Malayalam വികസിപ്പിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tiżviluppa | ||
Maori whanake | ||
Marathi विकसित | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯦꯝꯒꯠ ꯁꯥꯒꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo tihmasawn | ||
Mongolian хөгжүүлэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက် | ||
Nepali विकास | ||
Norwegian utvikle | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିକାଶ | ||
Oromo misoomsuu | ||
Pashto پرمختګ | ||
Persian توسعه دادن | ||
Polish rozwijać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) desenvolve | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਕਾਸ | ||
Quechua wiñay | ||
Romanian dezvolta | ||
Russian развиваться | ||
Samoan atiaʻe | ||
Sanskrit रचयति | ||
Scots Gaelic leasaich | ||
Sepedi hlabolla | ||
Serbian развити | ||
Sesotho ntshetsa pele | ||
Shona kukura | ||
Sindhi ترقي ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සංවර්ධනය කරන්න | ||
Slovak rozvíjať | ||
Slovenian razvijati | ||
Somali horumariyo | ||
Spanish desarrollar | ||
Sundanese mekarkeun | ||
Swahili kuendeleza | ||
Swedish utveckla | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bumuo | ||
Tajik инкишоф додан | ||
Tamil உருவாக்க | ||
Tatar үсеш | ||
Telugu అభివృద్ధి | ||
Thai พัฒนา | ||
Tigrinya ዕበ | ||
Tsonga tumbuluxa | ||
Turkish geliştirmek | ||
Turkmen ösdürmeli | ||
Twi (Akan) hyehyɛ | ||
Ukrainian розвивати | ||
Urdu ترقی | ||
Uyghur ئېچىش | ||
Uzbek rivojlantirish | ||
Vietnamese phát triển, xây dựng | ||
Welsh datblygu | ||
Xhosa phuhlisa | ||
Yiddish אַנטוויקלען | ||
Yoruba dagbasoke | ||
Zulu thuthukisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Ontwikkel" in Afrikaans can also refer to the "unveiling" or "exposure" of something. |
| Albanian | The word "zhvillohen" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*gʷʰel-**, meaning "to turn, roll, revolve". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word ማዳበር (develop) derives from the word ዳበር (speak) and connotes the idea of bringing something into existence through communication. |
| Arabic | "طور" also means a mountain in Arabic (e.g., طور سيناء Mount Sinai). |
| Azerbaijani | "İnkişaf" means "blossom" in Turkish but in Azerbaijani it means "develop." |
| Basque | The Basque word 'garatu' can also mean 'to build' or 'to construct'. |
| Belarusian | In Proto-Slavic, "развіваць" meant "to turn around, to spin", and in some Belarusian dialects it still has that meaning. |
| Bosnian | "Razvijati" stems from Persian "razidan" meaning either "be/become free" or "grow/progress." |
| Bulgarian | Развиват се (razvivayt se) can also mean "to be developed" or "to evolve" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "desenvolupar" also means "to unfold" or "to unwrap". |
| Cebuano | The term 'pagpalambo' also refers to the expansion or advancement of an object or concept. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | '发展' in Chinese can also mean 'to open up' or 'to unfold' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 發展 in Chinese can refer to either the act of developing or the state of being developed. |
| Corsican | The verb "sviluppà" can also mean "unwrap" or "unfold" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | "Razviti" also means "to scatter" or "to tear" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "rozvíjet" can also mean "to unfold", "to spread out", or "to blossom". |
| Danish | Udvikle can also mean "unveil", "evolve", or "disclose". |
| Dutch | "Ontwikkelen" can also mean "unveil" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word " disvolvi " is derived from the Latin word " dissolvere " which means " to dissolve " or " to break up ". |
| Estonian | The word "arenema" is derived from the Proto-Finnic verb "*are" meaning "to grow". |
| Finnish | In addition to 'develop', "kehittää" has other meanings such as to invent, to devise, and to perfect. |
| French | In French, "développer" can also mean "to unroll" or "to unfold", reflecting its Latin root "devolvere" meaning "to roll down". |
| Frisian | The word "ûntwikkelje" also means "to unfold" or "to open (a flower)" in Frisian. |
| Galician | The verb "desenvolver" in Galician can also mean to wrap or unpack, as in "desenvolver un regalo" (to unwrap a gift). |
| Georgian | In the 10th century, |
| German | In its original sense, "entwickeln" means "to unfold" or "to unwrap", reflecting its Proto-Germanic root "*wik-," meaning "to open" or "to unfold." |
| Greek | In Greek, 'αναπτύσσω' translates to 'unfold' but can also mean 'to expose' or 'to spread out'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "વિકાસ" derives from the Sanskrit word "vikās," meaning growth or development, indicating evolution or maturation. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "devlope" can refer to both development and childbirth, with the latter connotation being more commonly used. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "ci gaba" also means "to continue" or "to proceed". |
| Hawaiian | Etymology: hoʻo- (causative prefix) + mohala (growth, development) |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew verb "לפתח" (l'pateah) also means "to unlock," a metaphorical allusion to opening up possibilities and potential. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "विकसित करना" is derived from the Sanskrit word "विकास" (vikās), which means "growth, expansion, or development". |
| Hmong | "Tsim kho" is a verb meaning "to grow, develop, or increase" in Hmong, and it also has the connotation of "to progress" or "to make advancement." |
| Hungarian | The word 'fejleszteni' can also mean 'to cultivate' or 'to improve' in addition to its meaning of 'to develop'. |
| Icelandic | The word "þróa" can also mean "to grow" or "to cultivate" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | The word “ịzụlite” also means "to nurture," "to bring up," and "to cultivate something." |
| Indonesian | "Mengembangkan" also means "to expand" or "to unfurl" something. |
| Irish | The word "fhorbairt" also has the meanings "growth" and "progress". |
| Italian | In Italian, the word "sviluppare" can also mean "to unroll or unfold". |
| Japanese | The word "発展させる" can also mean "to prosper" or "to flourish". |
| Javanese | The word "ngrembaka" can also mean "to unfold" or "to spread out" in Javanese. |
| Kazakh | The word "дамыту" in Kazakh derives from the Persian word "دمیدن" (damidan), meaning "to blow" or "to breathe". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "អភិវឌ្ឍ" (develop) is derived from Sanskrit and also means "to expand" or "to progress". |
| Kurdish | The word "pêşvebirin" is also used to mean "to make progress" and "to grow" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "иштеп чыгуу" in Kyrgyz can also mean "to create" or "to produce". |
| Lao | Laotian "ພັດທະນາ" means not only to "develop" but in a Buddhist context also "to cultivate merit and goodness for the next life". |
| Latin | In Latin, "develop" can refer to the process of unwrapping or rolling out a scroll. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the word "attīstīties" comes from the Baltic root *ti̯es-*, meaning "to stretch, extend" and is cognate with words in other Indo-European languages such as the Sanskrit "tāyayāmi" (meaning "to stretch, extend") and the Ancient Greek "tēinō" (meaning "to stretch, draw"). |
| Lithuanian | The word "vystytis" is derived from the verb "vystyti", which means "to unfold" or "to unroll". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "entwéckelen" is derived from the German word "entwickeln", with the same basic meaning, and can also mean to unwrap (e.g., a gift) or to open a door/window. |
| Macedonian | The word "развиваат" (develop) was originally used in the context of farming and animal breeding. |
| Malagasy | "Hampivelarana" is derived from the root "velar" meaning "to grow" or "to make grow". |
| Malay | The word "berkembang" in Malay can also mean "to flourish" or "to thrive". |
| Maltese | The word "tiżviluppa" originally meant "to wrap" or "to envelop" in Maltese. |
| Maori | "In Maori, the word whanake holds additional meanings beyond "develop", including "to grow, nurture, thrive, and flourish". |
| Marathi | The word "विकसित" comes from the root word "विकास", which means "growth" or "progress." |
| Mongolian | "Хөгжүүлэх" (develop) is derived from the verb "хөгжих" (to grow or develop), and it can also mean "to cultivate," "to improve," or "to promote." |
| Nepali | The word "विकास" can also mean growth, evolution, or progress. |
| Norwegian | Utvikle, a Norwegian word meaning 'to develop', originates from the Old Norse word 'útvekkja', which means 'to wrap out' or 'to unfold'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kukula" also means "to be brought up or raised (e.g., a child)" or "to grow (e.g., a plant)". |
| Pashto | The word "پرمختګ" is derived from the Persian word "پروردن" meaning "to nourish" or "to educate". |
| Persian | The word توسعة دادن means both "to develop" and "to expand" in Persian. |
| Polish | Rozwijać can also mean to "unfold" or "to spread out". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "desenvolver" also means "turn inside out" or "roll up". |
| Punjabi | The word "विकास" can also mean "expansion" or "unfolding" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "dezvolta" (develop) originates from the Latin "disvolvere" (to unroll) and also means "to unfold". |
| Russian | Russian "развиваться" can also mean "progress", "flourish", or "evolve". |
| Samoan | "Atiaʻe" in Samoan can also mean to build, construct, or create something from scratch. |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Leasaich' is derived from the Gaelic noun 'leas' meaning 'increase' or 'growth'. |
| Serbian | "Развити" is etymologically related to the Sanskrit word "vrt" meaning "to turn" and has alternate meanings such as "to unfurl" and "to progress." |
| Sesotho | The word "ntshetsa pele" can also be used to mean "to become independent". This is because developing oneself often leads to becoming more self-sufficient and independent. |
| Shona | "Kukura" also means "to grow" and "to mature" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "ترقي ڪريو" has Arabic origins and is related to the concept of "progress" or "advancement." |
| Slovak | "Rozvíjať" derives from "vír" meaning "whirlpool", alluding to the process of something growing and changing over time. |
| Slovenian | The verb "razvijati" can also mean "to unfold" or "to spread out" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "horumariyo" can also mean "to grow" or "to mature". |
| Spanish | The Spanish verb "desarrollar" also means "to roll out" or "to unfurl". |
| Sundanese | "Mekarkeun" literally means "to flower, to bloom" in Sundanese, and in a figurative sense, it conveys the idea of growth, progress, and development. |
| Swahili | The word "kuendeleza" in Swahili is derived from the root word "-endelea" meaning "to continue" or "to progress". It also has the alternate meaning of "to improve" or "to make better". |
| Swedish | The word "utveckla" in Swedish originates from the German word "entwickeln", meaning "to unfold" or "to evolve". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "bumuo" can also mean "to create" or "to form". |
| Tajik | "Инкишоф додан" can also mean 'to open' or 'to create' in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word உருவாக்க also has the meaning "to produce", especially artistic productions. |
| Telugu | అబివ్దే ఉట్టకడవా ఆ ఆడమిక సెలవ కి కవై విచార న మద్ విటి అభివ్రదేన గతుల ఇఅ ఆఱథ దూరీ వఈక బాసా రసా మయెయ కలక లీఊ |
| Thai | The Thai word "พัฒนา" (develop) is derived from the Sanskrit word "pradhāna" meaning "chief, principal, or best". |
| Turkish | The word "geliştirmek" derives from the Arabic word "devr", meaning "turn" or "rotation", and can also mean "to evolve" or "to improve" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The verb "розвивати" can mean both "to develop" in the sense of "to grow" or "to evolve" and "to develop" in the sense of "to create" or "to produce." |
| Urdu | The word "ترقی" can also mean "advancement," "improvement," or "progress." |
| Uzbek | The word "rivojlantirish" can also mean "to improve" or "to advance". |
| Vietnamese | "Phát triển, xây dựng" can also mean "to expand" or "to cultivate" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word "datblygu" is derived from the root "dathlu" (to spread) and has the alternate meaning of "to expand". |
| Xhosa | The word "phuhlisa" in Xhosa also means "to raise" or "to cultivate." |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַנטוויקלען" is derived from the German word "entwickeln", which means "to unfold" or "to evolve". It can also mean "to grow" or "to progress". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'dagbasoke', meaning 'to develop' is also used as 'to evolve', or 'unfold'. |
| Zulu | The word "thuthukisa" can also mean "to cultivate" or "to advance". |
| English | The word "develop" is derived from Late Latin "devolvere", meaning "to unroll" or "disclose", and is related to "envelope". |